[Sidenote: New Corps not to be formed under certain circumstances.] 10. The formation of a new Corps will not be sanctioned, unless a sufficient number of persons to form a Battery are prepared to enrol themselves, and whilst any Battery already existing in the locality is below its establishment. [Sidenote: Information to be given on application.] 11. In offering the services of a new Corps for acceptance, it should be stated:-- (_a_) The place proposed for its head-quarters. (_b_) The number of persons who are prepared to enrol themselves. (_c_) The name and address of some person with whom communications on the subject may be made. (_d_) The Brigade of which it will form a part. (_e_) That a proper place will be secured for the safe custody of any Government arms and ammunition which may be issued. (Form in Appendix A.) [Sidenote: Single Brigade.] 12. Whenever it is practicable, a Brigade will be formed at each of the large ports in the Kingdom, and the batteries composing the Brigade will be raised in the immediate neighbourhood of the port. [Sidenote: District Brigade.] When the Volunteers are not of sufficient strength at any port to form a Brigade, the batteries enrolled on a part of the coast formed into a district, will be formed into a Brigade, and will be called a District Brigade. The object of this organization is to unite separate batteries under one head, to secure uniformity among them, and to afford them the advantage of an Officer Instructor. PRECEDENCE AND COMMAND. [Sidenote: Rank of the Force.] 13. The "Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Force" takes precedence immediately after the "Royal Naval Volunteers" established by the Act of 1859. [Sidenote: Precedence of Brigades.] 14. The relative precedence of the Brigades forming the Force is determined by the date on which they were first severally established. [Sidenote: Precedence of Corps.] 15. The relative precedence of Corps is determined by the date on which the Secretary of the Admiralty has first received a letter offering the services of the Corps. [Sidenote: Precedence of Officers with others.] 16. Officers of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers rank with, but after, Officers of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve of their respective ranks. [Sidenote: Precedence of Officers with each other.] 17. The relative precedence of Officers of the whole Force is determined solely by the rank and date of their commissions in the Force. [Sidenote: Precedence of Officers of same date.] 18. The relative precedence of Officers bearing commissions of the same date is determined by the order in which their names appear in the Navy List. Nothing in these Regulations is to give a claim to any Officer of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers to assume command of any of Her Majesty's Land Forces on shore, nor to any Officer of Her Majesty's Land Forces to assume command of any of Her Majesty's Naval Forces.